Title 38, Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-102

§7265 Contempt Authority; Assistance to the Court

Title 38 › PART V — BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES › CHAPTER 72 — UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS › SUBCHAPTER II — PROCEDURE › § 7265

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Court can punish someone with a fine or jail for contempt. That covers three things: bad conduct in or near court that blocks justice, misconduct by its officers while on duty, and refusing to obey its lawful orders. The Court may get the same help other U.S. courts get to carry out its orders. If the chief judge asks, the United States marshal for that district must attend any session of the Court there.

Full Legal Text

Title 38, §7265

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(a)The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment such contempt of its authority as—

(1)misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;

(2)misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or

(3)disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.

(b)The Court shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The United States marshal for a district in which the Court is sitting shall, if requested by the chief judge of the Court, attend any session of the Court in that district.

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Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4065 of this title as this section.

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38 U.S.C. § 7265

Title 38, Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102